Here's some words cribbed from a decent web site
[http://emfinstitute.emf.org/exhibits/philipspavilion.html]
When, in January 1956, an
officer of Philips
Corporation in the
Netherlands called Le
Corbusier, one of Europe's
best-known
architects, and asked him
to design a pavilion
for the Brussels World's
Fair in 1958, Le
Corbusier answered: "I will
make you a poème
électronique ..." The
pavilion, as it turned out,
was designed in large part
by Iannis Xenakis,
who was interested, at that
time, in shapes such
as hyperbolic paraboloids.
Xenakis was one of
Le Corbusier's
architectural assistants.
The program in the pavilion
during the World's
Fair was a major multimedia
show of sound and
image. Edgard Varèse' Poème
Electronique, a
musique concrète
composition containing
electronically modified
sounds based on
percussion and melody
instruments, voice,
machines, and other
sources, was played
several times each day
through 425
loudspeakers to the
accompaniment of
projections and a light
show created by Le
Corbusier. Iannis Xenakis'
Concrète PH, made
with sounds of smoldering
charcoal, was played
as an interlude between
shows.
The Philips Pavilion was
also a major statement
of spatialization of sound.
As Varèse later
described it, the sound
followed paths through
the loudspeaker arrays, and
groups of
loudspeakers were used to
create effects such
as reverberation. He said,
"I heard my music
literally projected into
space."
Best,
Margaret English
Librarian
Fine Art Library
Michaela Zonnenshain wrote:
> Hello,Music that was written and inspired by buildings, have any
> idea?Thanks in advance,
> michaela Michaela Zonnenshain
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